2022 Ballon d’Or Nominees Full List

The Ballon d’Or is a prestigious and annual football award presented by French news magazine, France Football since 1956.

Every year, both players and fans look up to the awards, and possibly celebrate in a variety of ways with the eventual winner.

Between 2010 and 2015, in an agreement with FIFA, the award was temporarily merged with the FIFA World Player of the Year, to be known as FIFA Ballon d’Or. That partnership ended in 2016, and the award reverted to the Ballon d’Or,

The nominees for this year’s Ballon d’Or are as follows:

Thibaut Courtois (BEL, Real Madrid)

Rafael Leao (POR, AC Milan)

Mohamed Salah (EGY, Liverpool)

Joshua Kimmich (GER, Bayern Munich)

Christopher Nkunku (FRA, RB Leipzig)

Trent Alexander-Arnold (ANG, Liverpool)

Robert Lewandowski (POL, Bayern Munich then FC Barcelona)

Bernardo Silva (POR, Manchester City)

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Vinicius Junior (BRE, Real Madrid)

Luis Diaz (COL, FC Porto then Liverpool)

Karim Benzema (FRA, Real Madrid)

Fabinho (BRE, Liverpool)

Riyad Mahrez (ALG, Manchester City)

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